3rd Silk-Waste Spinning Mill — Circular Machines Department

The 'circular machines' department was one of the cycle's last stations: silk-waste yarns were knitted in tubular form for the production of stockings and underwear. A good share of the Cascame's output left through this department, ending up on Italian legs.

The factory group photograph is an act of ownership disguised as memory: the company photographs its employees to remember, and to remind them, who they belong to.

In the 1931 census Vigevano had over 2,000 textile-industry workers, the great majority of them women: the Cascame alone accounted for almost 40%.

«We went into the Cascame as girls and came out old. But it was our factory, and when it closed we felt the floor pulled out from under our feet.» — testimony of a former worker, recorded by SPI-CGIL.